Better Off Dead Summary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Savage Steve Holland
Genres: Comedy
Rating:
Most animation aficionados of the 1990s know "Savage Steve_Holland" as the cocreator (with Bill_Kopp) of the all-stops-out TV cartoon series Eek! The Cat. But Holland had been exercising his own peculiar brand of deviltry on live characters long before Eek! came into being. In Holland's Better_Off_Dead, John_Cusack plays a lovestruck teenager, hopelessly enamored with Amanda_Wyss. When she dumps him in favor of a more popular high-schooler, the boy's entire day quickly goes to Hell. In the words of Hamlet, all occasions do inform against Cusack: he is bullied, tormented and torn apart by everyone from the paperboy (who seemingly turns up everywhere) to the disembodied voice of a radio deejay. Cusack attempts suicide, but his efforts are just as unsuccessful-and amusing-as Bud_Cort's in Harold and Maude. Meanwhile, French exchange student Diane_Franklin, held a virtual prisoner by her host family, develops a long-distance crush on Cusack. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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